Manifesting Time and Me – Leah E. Reinhart

Being a new author comes with its fair amount of challenges, especially when juggling multiple jobs. It can be expensive and extremely time consuming. But, I’ve never been one for doing things the easy way. For example, I finished my first manuscript during the time I opened up my business; The Wellness Garden Tool Shed, a hair salon encompassing the mind, body, and spirit.

Anyone who has ever owned a business knows the duties that go along with opening a new venture, not to mention a business in a different town from where you were working. Not only was I opening my own salon after many years of working in other salons, I was moving to a new location and adding angel card readings to my normal haircare services, knowing I’d probably lose people with these changes, equaling losing money.

While in the throes of the salon opening, I was finishing my manuscript and was entering into all the tedious details of getting my book – Manifesting Me – published. Thankfully, I am aware of the law of attraction and how it works – energy attracts things to match that energy.

I get extremely motivated and excited when a new challenge comes up, but writing was eminently unfamiliar. Being an author requires discipline, which was something I had to learn. Writing doesn’t come with its rewards right away, like doing hair or reading angel cards. You don’t see any money for quite some time. It isn’t cheap to publish a manuscript, especially without any prior knowledge of the industry.

Even though I understand how the law of attraction works, I struggle with the money part. I figured I’d spend the money somewhere, so why not on a new venture or the proper way to publish a book? My grandma gave me words of wisdom many years ago saying, “Darlin’, the money always comes when you need it. Don’t worry about it.” I have my own historical evidence to prove her theory. Making time and sitting down to write posed more of a challenge, but not to the point of undoable.

I actually learned how to manage my time from meditation and visualization. I had done lots of visualizations, but I wasn’t fully on board with understanding how meditation worked. I challenged myself, after reading books on how the brain works, to a thirty day meditation and visualization. First item in my experiment was to quiet my mind and to focus only on my breathing. After I’ve quieted my mind for around ten minutes, I began to visualize what I wanted my life to look like. I started this process back in 2012.

One thing on my list was I have enough time. To this day, I always have enough time to do the things that I want to do and I’m almost never late. It’s as if I can manipulate time, by relaxing and not worrying about being late. This strategy has allowed me to do many things and not feel overwhelmed in the process. Once I figured this out, I scheduled myself time for writing and followed through.

It is very important to set a time to write and stick to it, because there are deadlines. My writing coach and I had a standing appointment with deadlines due each week. Plus, there are all kinds of tasks to schedule for publishing. Most of us are working other jobs when we make the decision to become an author. And most jobs require a lot of us.

Being a salon owner/hairstylist, there are always things that need my attention aside from my normal hairstyling duties; from booking appointments, to inventory, cleaning, laundry, accounting, payroll, not to mention angel card reading. I can’t tell you how many people have come to me and are in awe of how I could write a book. I’m not any more awesome than anyone else. We all have the same twenty-four-hour days, and I certainly don’t have super powers.

What I do have is follow through. Thinking of a whole entire book to write is too much. You take one day at a time.  An acorn doesn’t turn into an oak tree overnight. There’s a gestation period for everything.

The money part was a challenging as well, but I had to view it as a new business. Being a business owner, I am aware of how much money it takes to start one. The money can definitely vary on getting a book published. Thus, the importance of doing your due diligence is extremely important.

Once Manifesting Me reached the public and I received some feedback, I realized writing had healing properties not just for myself, but others, too. Hair helps with outside beauty, angel cards help with people’s energy and introspection, and writing helps people mentally and emotionally. In essence, writing is another tool added to my tool shed to help, teach, heal, and hopefully inspire others to believe anything is possible if you focus and believe. You could say I’m a bit selfish, considering how much I’ve manifested me, in this new adventure in writing.

Manifesting Me – Leah E. Reinhart

When Leah Reinhart was six years old, her family moved to an unlikely neighborhood on a hill much like the country—a place where everyone dressed and lived like they were living a real-life – Little House on the Prairie. Yet their new home was in Oakland, California, and everything surrounding Leah’s neighborhood was the polar opposite of their old-fashioned lifestyle.

As an already scared little white girl in a predominantly African American city, Leah quickly learned that would have to learn to face many of her fears—or get eaten alive. And in her search for love and belonging, she also found that things aren’t always as they appear. As she got to know her neighbors, most of whom belonged to the neighborhood church, she began to realize that the hood was sometimes much safer than the country.

Over the course of her life—learning from the streets, a cult, trial and error, and many years of therapy—Leah developed an eye for patterns. She learned how the belief system she’d absorbed during her childhood manifested in her teenage years and young adulthood. Ultimately, she learned how to change her thoughts and accept herself—and in doing so, she broke free of the cycle she’d been imprisoned by.

AUTHOR BIO:

Leah E. Reinhart is a hair stylist and angel card reader turned author. When the market crashed and business was slow, her hair clients encouraged her to write a memoir after hearing some of her stories about her unusual childhood in Oakland, California. She started writing and a whole new journey began as she began to fall in love with writing and reading. Leah E. Reinhart is a mother of two and a wife, and currently works in her not-so-ordinary salon, Wellness Garden Tool Shed.

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Category: Contemporary Women Writers, On Writing